Stadium Discussion

Where Do You Want The Stadium?

  • Manhattan

    Votes: 54 16.6%
  • Queens

    Votes: 99 30.5%
  • Brooklyn

    Votes: 19 5.8%
  • Staten Island

    Votes: 7 2.2%
  • Westchester

    Votes: 18 5.5%
  • The Bronx

    Votes: 113 34.8%
  • Long Island

    Votes: 7 2.2%
  • Dual-Boroughs

    Votes: 3 0.9%
  • Etihad Island

    Votes: 5 1.5%

  • Total voters
    325
Add another current season ticket holder that would drop out if they go to Queens. Yep, I am from CT and as much as this may be close to major highways, bridges etc. any stadium will have to be near a metro north / easily assessable subway like (like Yankee Stadium) because there is no way in hell I would ever drive to a game...I will only take mass transit. I have a bunch of friends here in CT that would also drop their season tickets fwiw
Sad to see the CT support in the forums is so paper thin that all would drop their tickets. Wherever they pick I'm not sure catering to the CT crowd will be their top priority with the population low and the support so easily wavered. I am a mass transit guy too and will be taking the train to the subway while at Yankee stadium. Sounds like CT people are only supporters if convenient for them.
 
Part of the allure of having teams in NYC is the mass transit available. The subway and train lines are as much a part of NYC as the Empire State Building.

You can't pick a logo with a subway token on it and then not have your stadium available by most mass transit services
 
The more mass transit the better. Unfortunately everyone has their preferred mass transit and no one agrees. To say if it is not on my metro north line I won't go is kind of lame.
 
Sad to see the CT support in the forums is so paper thin that all would drop their tickets. Wherever they pick I'm not sure catering to the CT crowd will be their top priority with the population low and the support so easily wavered. I am a mass transit guy too and will be taking the train to the subway while at Yankee stadium. Sounds like CT people are only supporters if convenient for them.
I don't get paid by the club, I pay for season tickets and support them. I have a family which is first in my life so if they are not near mass transit that is convenient and I would have to spend hours stuck in traffic then that would be a pain in the ass for me and my family then no I will not be supporting them. You can feel and do whatever you like. If I wanted to support a club that was inconvenient for me then I would support the Cosmos or Red Bulls.
 
I don't get paid by the club, I pay for season tickets and support them. I have a family which is first in my life so if they are not near mass transit that is convenient and I would have to spend hours stuck in traffic then that would be a pain in the ass for me and my family then no I will not be supporting them. You can feel and do whatever you like. If I wanted to support a club that was inconvenient for me then I would support the Cosmos or Red Bulls.
You can and should support whoever you like. I was merely trying to say that just because a location is not convenient for you mr vin does not make it inconvenient for the rest of the world. I just think a subway line that touches a lot of queens, Brooklyn, and manhattan. The 3 most populated Burroughs, is decently accessible. And the fact it doesn't have a direct line to your house in CT might not be the biggest concern.
 
You can and should support whoever you like. I was merely trying to say that just because a location is not convenient for you mr vin does not make it inconvenient for the rest of the world. I just think a subway line that touches a lot of queens, Brooklyn, and manhattan. The 3 most populated Burroughs, is decently accessible. And the fact it doesn't have a direct line to your house in CT might not be the biggest concern.
Dude, I wasn't asking for a direct line to my house and I certainly don't think anyone at NYCFC is going to alter their stadium plans based on what works for me. I was merely stating what worked for me and what didn't which is one of the things people do on forums. People support teams all over the world based on it being near where they are located and that it is easy for them to go and watch and support the team. It's cool if it works for you in Queens, but I highly doubt that is where they will end up anyway.
 
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Dude, I wasn't asking for a direct line to my house and I certainly don't think anyone at NYCFC is going to alter their stadium plans based on what works for me. I was merely stating what worked for me and what didn't which is one of the things people do on forums. People support teams all over the world based on it being near where they are located and that it is easy for them to go and watch and support the team. It's cool if it works for you in Queens, but I highly doubt that is where they will end up anyway.
And in the same fashion I was merely stating my opinion (as is done on forums) that to see we would
Lose you and other CT fans if the stadium was less convenient for them would stink. I don't want to lose any fellow fans. Especially ones interested enough in the team to get season tickets and be on the forums when the team only has 6 players. I personally will go to Either location but completely understand people that won't.
 
If they build in Queens, I will drop my tickets once they leave Yankee Stadium. Queens is only convenient for Long Island Suburbs. You will lose Westchester and Connecticut and New Jersey.

You want to maintain this as New York's soccer team? Build it on Manhattan Island or the Bronx. Only centrally located spots.

by Aqueduct, it would gain all of Queens (the largest and most diverse borough), Brooklyn, Staten Island & Long Island can get there from Belt Parkway, the A lines runs straight through Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.

Out of town fans can fly into JFK or LaGuardia stay at a hotel or motel by the airport, Ozone Park or Howard Beach take air train to Howard Beach, hop on the A train and be at the stadium in 1 stop. I'm sure @NYCFC_Dan and others would appreciate that. :)
 
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Just for laughs I googled around and found this. The Yankee Stadium site would be ideal. Aqueduct? No so much. As you can see the A train has a stop there and it's right off the Belt Parkway, but in all honesty I'm not sure if either is equipped to handle the load of a 20K+ crowd. Perhaps someone more familiar with the area can chime in.

From a strictly personal point of view, this site wouldn't be a deal breaker for me at all. I did a quick search on the MTA web page and it would be about 4 stops more for me on the subway to get there as compared to Yankee Stadium. A bit further than the Bronx, but actually a lost closer than Flushing Meadows Park.

Honestly, I still think we end up in the Bronx. Look how things have progressed. All of a sudden the Mayor seems on board for the Bronx location and the factory is balking when for the longest time it seemed to be the opposite. I'm getting the feeling once the checkbok opens up a little more for the factory people we'll have a done deal.

I'm from nearby Broad Channel, and went to Junior High School and Elementary school near Aqueduct, yes it could handle the load, they would have to have MTA run extra A trains, much how they run extra 7 trains before and after Mets games, which would not be difficult as there are two A trains, one that goes out to Lefferts BLVD and the other that heads out to Far Rockaway, they split at Rockaway Blvd, which is one stop away from Aqueduct.

Also Resorts Casino runs free shuttle buses from all over to get people to the casino, I'm sure people will be able to use them to get to games if they want.

I do feel bad for people who have it convenient at Yankee stadium only to possibly have it yanked away (see what I did there) however the Bronx is about an hour to an hour and half away from where I am on the D train, it would be about the same time frame taking the F to the A to get to Aqueduct.

the Q53 bus can get people from Queens Blvd & Roosevelt Avenue and they can get off at Rockaway Blvd and transfer to the A for 1 stop.
 
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Ugh. Aqueduct is 2 hrs 9 minutes from my Jersey office. 56 minutes from my apartment in Lower Manhattan. Really hoping this is just a negotiation ploy. Driving would be the best option as that cuts the time in half.
 
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That's from an old EOS article pointing at ten locations for a possible stadium (http://www.empireofsoccer.com/10-possible-locations-for-a-soccer-stadium-in-nyc-18760/2/). This proved to be the best of the litter for clear reasons -- some of which I included in today's write up: http://www.empireofsoccer.com/report-aqueduct-through-28818/

Nothing you all haven't spoken about already, but the site has its clear advantages and disadvantages. Location is pretty bad as is transportation. Politically and as far as availability goes, doesnt get much better in the Tri-State area.

I love the spot, but I know it is far from ideal for others.
 
Not to bust your buble from the CT and Westchester area (i know there are bunch of you in the forum) but the aqueduct site is smack dab in the middle of one of the most populated areas in the world. http://www.newgeography.com/content/002157-the-accelerating-suburbanization-new-york

Queens and kings county are about 4million combined while Bronx and westchester are only 2.5 million combined. Nassau county is more populated than westchester and Connecticut suberbs. And Suffolk has another 1.5 mil. I agree it would lose NJ people but they have red bulls right there already. CT people are not too far over the bridges as other people have said. As for public transit which I am more inclined to take being a drinker. Beefing up existing service is much easier than building new service.

Largely irrelevant. Despite being in the middle of all those people, the access to mass transportation is terrible, the Belt and the Van Wyck are two of the worst highways in the tri-state area, the A train from Penn Station is nearly an hour and it would even take 40 minutes to get to that location from Forest Hills using public transportation. There is a reason that Aqueduct is a dump and the city let a disgusting casino be built there.

The most vocal people on this board could not be less representative of the target audience for this team. As others have said, the die-hards barely matter. The masses matter and the masses aren't shlepping to South Ozone Park.